I am having such a bad week. I've been running around the whole week. Was preparing for the new Vice-Principals Induction which was on Wed so since last Fri till Tues night, yes, night, the committe, which I'm a member of, were running around like chickens without heads, making sure everything was ready before Wednesday's event. It was so bloody tiring.

And the worst thing was, immediately the next day, I had to help out Supt in conducting two half day workshops, so there was one session in the morning and another one in the afternoon. Needless to say, at the end of yesterday, I was seriously half dead. I was so bloody exhausted that I skipped gym! And I sprained my right feet so I was hobbling up and down the training room and my office. Urgh....

But I received flowers on Wed from Dev, my favourite flowers, white and pink tiger lilies. He had the florist send them to my workplace. I was so happy. At least that brightened up my day.

Beautiful aren't they? :)

At least Fri is here, and I have slightly over an hour before I knock off. I'll be doing my mani and pedi with my elder sis again this Sun and a massage after that. Yeah! So happy!

I want to watch Transformers and Oceans 13 ,I know, it's been showing forever and Fantastic Four, I want to go to Sentosa and hang out there, I want to go the zoo, I want to go for a buffet at Olive Tree....I'm seriously stressed out. I think I'm going to go for another shopping spree tomorrow. Will update on the damage done to my wallet next week.

You guys have a good weekend... Ciao!

I miss being in school. So, so, so, so much. On Sat morning, I went back to school, Peirce Sec, to talk to the Principal about my returning back. It was a pretty good conversation cos he knows where I stand now and vice versa. The issue was that I was going to do my Masters which starts in Mar next year. So they don't know where to dump me cos if I were to be in school, I would only be there for 2 months before I went off and that's quite disruptive for the school. So the school had 3 options:

Option 1: Have me back in school for 2 months next year, then I leave to study and come back in 2009. What do I do for the 2 mths? I'll be a roving teacher, mentoring and guiding the younger teachers...Ookkaayy....I'm not that old, you know..Geez...

Option 2: Have me back in school for the whole of 2008, and I defer my studies in 2009. AGAIN.

Option 3: Let me go off in Jan to do compressed modules which the uni has (That starts in Jan 08) and continue with my course proper. Which means I leave in Jan 2008, and come back end of the year.

To me, Option 3 is the best option. Why? Not just cos I get to go off faster and not have to worry about going to work, but more so cos there'll be no continuity for the school if I just leave halfway through. I find that really disruptive not just for me but for the school too. Of course my Principal did not dare to commit, so I had to wait till today before I received a call from him. After much deliberation with the VP and HODs involved, they dcided the best bet was for me to go off in Jan! Yeah!!! I'm so happy. Now, I just have to get my DD to sign my leave form and by Jan 2nd I will be off to study! I'm so happy!!

I had my work review with my DD last Thursday and it was a really long session, about 2 hrs long. And she told me my strengths and weaknesses. Ok, the good part first. My strengths: I am a team player, I'm willing to take on tasks and I have a lot of potential in me. :)
My weaknesses: I can be unsure of myself, and hence execute my work with some sort of trepidation. Yup, trepidation. Her exact words. She's a linguist so she uses big words like this all the time. And she told me this hesitation might not allow me to develop as far as I can go so I need to overcome this for me to truly excel.

Interesting..I've always thought I'm confident when it comes to work. I guess when it comes to work I'm confident of, like teaching,there's no hesitation. But I have to admit that being here has humbled me tremendously. You are working with people who manage 13 schools under their belt, have 20 to 30 over years of experience, young officers who are simply brimming with potential and ideas, and you realise how much more you have to learnt.

Ok, enough seriousness. On a lighter note, I met up with Khalidal for dinner on Fri after my kick boxing class. She looks great. Preparing for her wedding, looking for a place, saving up money. We had such a great time talking and I know why she's one of my greatest friends ever. She helped me put things in perspective and made me see things which I know I should be seeing but refuse to see... Call it state of denial. But we spent 3 hrs talking over cake and coffee and I feel as though a huge burden has been lifted off my shoulders.. I know I'm not making much sense here, but all you need to know is I'm happier and clearer now. K, thanks for the advice darling. You've helped. Tremendously. Love you.





K and me. This was taken in April actually.

I went shopping on Sat at the Mango sale. What did I buy? I bought a blood red slouchy sweater for $29, to go with a pair of dark brown tights for $12, and matched with a brown sling bag for $33. Very cheap. I was so pleased with myself. :)

On Sunday, I went out with mom. She did her facial, I did my waxing, we met up after that and went shopping at Causeway Point. And what did I buy? Hahahahaha..AN OVEN! A BLOODY OVEN!! I am so weird, I know.. And cos I wanted to save on the delivery fee of 30 bucks, I told the sales person, 'It's ok. I'll carry it back myself.' My God, it was FREAKING HEAVY!!! The oven box was so bloody huge that I think if I stooped really low, I can easly get into the box. I walked only a few steps out of Courts before I wanted to die. But I managed to lug it all the way down anyway where my bro-in-law was waitin for me in the car. Phew. Thank god for strong arms.:) So now with an oven in my house, my baking side will emerge again. I love to bake. I used to bake all the time till I moved away from my sis place and did not buy an oven till last Sun. I used to bake brownies, mufins, cookies, cakes, you name it. So excited to start baking again.

Ok, long entry. Update more in the week. It's only Tuesday..I feel like I've been at work for 5 straight days...Urgh..

For the second time, it's back to work again. I took 3 more days of leave (Last Fri till Tues) before coming back to work today. And it is such a depressing thing.....First thing first, I went out yesterday night with my friends to celebrate Angela's birthday. So we were out till 1030 and by the time I got home, I was half concussed cos I didn't sleep in the afternnon. I know I'm so lame right? I need to get proper rest if I want to go out late at night. And I had not ironed my work clothes for the next day nor packed my work bag. SoI decided to wear pants and a camisole with a cropped jacket over it cos I couldn't be bothered to iron. So I look shitty today.

But that's the least of my cocnern. When I got back to work, I saw Rodney after not seeing him for almost 2 weeks since we were both on leave and gave each other a hug. He's such a sweetie. Then spent a good 1 hr and a half catching up with him. When I finally sat down to work, it was 1030. And man, I have so many things to do. I've got to amend this 50 page report by Fri for an 830am meeting, I've got 2 school reports to do before my work reveiw tomorrow and the best part? I have 2 simlutaneous meetings today at 2pm. Fantastic. Think I'll have to stay back a little later today at work to finish the damn reports. I hate that. Ok, I abhor staying back late!

So on to happier things. I went out to celebrate Angela's bday yesterday and Angela came like half an hr late. So Vid, Wendy and me were starving and we decided to grab a light snack of honeyed chicken wings first. It was heavenly. Hot sticky chicken wings. Vid was in ecstasy. He was so grumpy before that but the chicken wings did it for him. When we finally met Angela, we went to this really nice and quaint Mexican restaurant at Holland Village and had a very filling meal of chicken and beef fajitas and prawn quesadillas, which was suprisingly good despite it being cheesy and all. And you guys know how much I hate cheese.

And of course we took lots of pictures. We bought Angela a pair of capri pants and earrings from Bangkok and she liked it. Wendy has the exact same pair of pants and I have the exact same pair of earrings. Hahahaha...We loved her gif so much we had to buy them for ourselves too.

Angela, the bday girl.

All of us. :)

Thanks for the company guys. Love you.

I had a 2hr lunch today and went for a foot reflexology session at Chinatown. I know, how auntie right? My feet has been tortured so badly that I have lumps at the sides at the bottom of my feet. It's so painful especially when I walk too long or exercise too much. Supposedly, the reflexologist said that area is connected to your lower back, which probably explains why my lower back is equally as screwed up. Oh, the picture on top is that of my feet by the way. They look tired right? And this was after a pedicure. Imagine when it's in its original state.

So I went for the reflexology and man, the guy is fantastic. For 45 minutes, he pumelled my feet, squeezing, pinching, massaging, and all I could do was bite my lips to stop myself from screaming out loud. I used to be able to take the pain from foot reflexology cos I used to do it monthly when I was in NIE, and till my first half of my first teaching year. But since then, I've stopped cos I've been too busy and the place in Holland Village closed down and I couldn't find anyone else who's good. When I went today, the pain was blinding. Ok, I'm exaggerating. It's not the lame-ass kind of reflexology where they use some stupid stick to massage your feet. This place I went to is the hard core, Chinese sinseh with smelly oil sort of place. And it hurt so much but in a sadistic sort of way, I enjoyed it. I get annoyed when I go for foot reflexology and I don't feel any pain. I need the pain. Hahahaha, I know. I'm so weird. But I feel much better now. More refreshed. Don't know whether it's the reflexelogy session or the long lunch. Probably both. :) But I will definitely go for this again. Soon. Oh, and the best thing about the place? It is cheap. Cost me only 18 bucks for a 45-minute session. Some places charge like 30 bucks for their half baked reflexology sessions.

On another note altogether, I'm on leave from tomorrow all through to Tuesday. Sigh of relief. Work has been a drag this week. No one's around, not much work, been wasting my time basically. Looking forward to 5 days of pure unadulterated laziness. I'm going to sleep late, go gym, meet up my friends for coffee, go for my massage and scrub, and just bum around.

Until then, I have 4 hrs to go before I knock off and start slacking.

It's back to work. I've been on leave since I came back from Bangkok and coming back to work today is the hardest thing I've had to do. You must remember that I used to have holidays in June where I literally did not have to go to work albeit the occassional CCA days or admin crap which requires my attention. And I still got paid. Urgh, I'm so going through withdrawal symptoms. What have I been doing during my leave? I gym, I meet up friends, I shop, I chat on msn with my friends, I watch Oprah Winfrey shows, Ellen Degeneres talk show, (Oprah is way better), reruns of So you think you can dance 2, DVD of Dirty Dancing Havana Nights, slept, slept, slept. That's life.

My workplace is so empty. I'm talking about 6 cars in the parking lot, only 1 Supt around, 2 POs, when we usually have 7 supts, 6 POs, 1DD. Yup, everyone's in a holiday mood! I guess we all need a break from the work. Cos when school starts, the shit starts all over again. At least that will mean I will only have 6 more months before I leave this place and go study. Something to look forward to.

Went to visit Maya yesterday. She had a nasty fall in the train 2 weeks ago and she fractured her ankles. It's bad. She has been on mc the past 2 weeks and the mc has been extended to another 4 weeks. She looked miserable when I saw her yesterday. But I told her that at leas she gets to be away from work for like 1 whole month or so but I don't think I helped. :(
Maya, hope you get better soon. And no, you don't look like a dugong. Hope the Choc chip cookie dough ben & jerry's ice cream helped. I'll try to come down again soon k.

In the meantime, I'm going to suck it up till Fri, when I take leave again. HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I took leave again from Fri till next Tues. And I'm just going to bum around and meet up with friends. :)